On 9/13/2015 2:45 PM, jp charras wrote: > Le 13/09/2015 20:11, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : >> On 9/13/2015 1:50 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 10:49:59PM -0600, Joseph Chen wrote: >>> >>>> Though you don't approve the change now, I hope you would approve it >>>> sometime later soon, like maybe RC2. I am saying this because I >>>> believe the fix is crucial for KiCAD to be improved towards a >>>> production quality EDA, after I encountered my PCB's near "DEATH" >>>> situation. >>> >>> I don't think that checking unmatched names is so critical. In fact >>> *most* of my labels are simply used to... label nets, not to create a >>> connection. That way during routing I can see the signal which need >>> particular attention (also it's easier to set netclasses in this way) >>> >>> A distraction like a mistyped label is akin to connecting a wire to the >>> wrong pin (one time I flipped over an amp symbol... lot's of smoke >>> happened :D); no ERC can save you from that. >>> >>> The *only* feature useful in the schematic DRC is the 'unconnected pin' >>> warning; all the other ones (signal conflicts, power pins and so on) are >>> a complete nuisance (at least for mixed signal and analog-heavy boards). >>> Even for digital boards a filter inductor on a power pin would give a >>> missing power warning :P >>> >> >> When a pin is connected to a wire with a label that doesn't go anywhere, >> does the ERC generate an error? It probably should because technically >> this is still an unconnected pin. This is a more sensible then checking >> for unmatched label names for the reasons Lorenzo stated above. >> > > Yes, because unconnected pins without no connect symbol are detected. > > Then this should be adequate to detect the problem as it was described or we have a bug in the ERC code. @Joseph, did you get an ERC error with your mismatched labels. If so, then the ERC did it's job properly. I don't think your changes make any improvement and in some cases will cause issues with net labels.
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